Improvement in ice-floors for refrigerators



D. J. STUART.

ICE FLOORS Fon REFRIGERATORS.

Patented May15,1877.

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IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-FLOORS FOR REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 190,928, dated May 15, 1877; application filed February 22, 1877.

To all uhom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID J. STUART, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement 4in Ice-Chamber Bottoms for Refrigerators;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specication.

My invention consists in an ice-chamber bottom having an opening through the same,

said opening being surrounded by conductors for conveying away from the ice-chamber the water formed by the melting of the'ice, in

.ment thereunto applied. Fig. Zis a central vertical cross-section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a -top view of such a refrigerator with the hinged cover at the top ofthe ice-chamber removed. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing a different way of forming and attaching conductors to the ice-chamber bottom.

A represents the vertical sides of the refrigerator; A', Figs. 3 and 4:,- the vertical ends; B, the bottom, and O the hinged cover of the same. D, Fig. 2, represents the door of the provision-chamber. E, Figs. 1 and 2, represents the ice-chamber, and F the provision-chamber. G represents the ice-chamber bottom attached to the sides A, and shorter than 'the interior of' the refrigerator, to leave the openings H between the ends Y of said ice-chamber bottom andthe vertical ends A of the refrigerator, said spaces being left for the circulation of air.

In the central part of said bottom G is formed the opening I, preferably elliptical or oval in form. The border of said opening is provided with the conductors lc attached to said bottom, said conductors being either formed continuously from the metal lining of said bottom or separately formed by casting or otherwise, and attached to said bottom by riveting, soldering', or otherjoining, one method being shown in Fig. 4.

Below the said gutters k is placed the receiver L, preferably made convex on its upper surface, and having around its outer margin a gutter, m. From the gutter m leads oli' a conductor, n, said conductor being attached to the receiver L, and discharging into the conductor P, which conveys the drp-Water out through the bottom of the refrigerator.

The receiver L is supported in proper relation with the conductors k by arms r r', one of which, r', is pivoted to the ice-chamber bottom G, to enable the said receiver to be easily detached from said bottom and taken out for cleaning or otherwise.

A strainer, s, Fig. 2, is placed at the junction of the conductor n with the gutter m, which prevents impurities from passing into and through said conductor into the conductor P, and clogging the same.

This construction allows the free central circulation of air from the provision-chamber F up between the conductors lc and through the opening I in the ice-chamber bottom G, above which the air, coming into direct contact with the ice, and being thereby rapidly and thoroughly cooled, descends again through the openings El.

I claim- The combination, with the ice-chamber bottom, having the opening I, surrounded by the conductors It, of the receiver L, having the gutter fm., and the attached conductor n, discharging into the conductor P, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

DAVID J. STUART.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, FRED. HAYNES. 

